The Housing sector, like any other, is awash with its own buzzwords. Social hearted, commercially minded, value for money etc. These all sound great, but in my experience it’s actually fairly tricky to explain succinctly what these buzzwords are referring to.

The new US President has no previous political experience, displayed a talent for breaking all conventions of electioneering, which has continued into government, and shamelessly pitched populist opinions to win. Political sentiments to one side, he is a ‘left-field’ candidate if ever there was one!

If you add a turbulent economy and the instability of Brexit to an already tight job market then it’s probably no surprise that my prediction is the war for talent is only going to get more intense. It is essential you do everything in your power to arm yourself effectively when attracting new talent.

As one of the leading executive search partners for SME’s across the UK, we spend a great deal of time working with our clients to find the best solutions for their leadership challenges. While we all have a degree of conscious and unconscious bias based on our own experience, I think it is fair to say that SME’s in general look at their counterparts within the blue-chip world with more suspicion than most.